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from the neat-hack dept.

cyclomedia writes "The Decibel Kid — the "AudioVisual Artist" responsible for last summer's Ipswich Zelda Map — has unveiled his new website. Modeled on Amiga OS it supports changing the wallpaper, window dragging, resizing, minimizing, and that z-index shuffle button. The mobile site is a completely different beast, modeling itself as a low-res LCD."
There's even a drum machine. If you're pining for the "real" thing, there's always UAE (if you can find a ROM). Update: 03/05 15:45 GMT by U L: polyp2000 pointed out a better simulation, and a simulation of Workbench 1.5.

Say did you know that Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry are still developing Directory OPus (for windows, now up to version 11.It started off as Shareware for the Amiga (V2 was on Fish Disk 212)

Because of DOpus on the Amiga, I own a copy of it on my windows. Very much used piece of software. In fact, probably the only piece of software I've used for over 20 years on various machines (and of course, various versions).

I've noticed a lot of software guys who love to type "foobar" where they apparently mean "FUBAR" the military slang. I've not figured out if this is intentional, or if they've been so ingrained with "foo" and "bar" from their college days that they just can't tear themselves away from it?

In my case, it was the K&R C books with foo and bar. But I'm also aware of FUBAR and what the acronym means......but I find foobar to be more "friendly", so when I don't want to insult someone per se, I'll use the foobar version. If I want to lambast someone, I'll use FUBAR (I also capitalize them as I've done in this post, so FUBAR is akin to yelling, too).

Ah, I see how you've got confused, but no, because what I was doing there was deliberately overstating the problem for comic effect and to draw attention to the admittedly tenuous irony inherent in your post.

I believe one of the goals of the AROS project [sourceforge.net] is to have a drop-in replacement for workbench/kickstart ROMs for m68k systems. So you could use their ROM on UAE and have a compatible system built entirely from open-source software. If that's your thing...

The open-source AmigaOS-alike named AROS includes their own ROM equivalents now as well. (Be careful! WinUAE has old ROM included, Aros Vision needs newer ones (included in directiry “boot” of the distribution))

That's kind of neat. It is almost as functional as the same concept done by Cyberduck about a decade ago. The Cyberduck site let you actually drag icons around, single click to select, double click to open. I guess I was expecting more when I went to this site, but it's still okay.

I was about to post this! 2.0 was called 1.4 while it was in development, then someone pointed out that all the other operating systems had bumped their versioning up higher already, so they changed it. 1.5 was never more than a footnote on a roadmap.

There's been a website emulating an Acorn Archimedes for ages. Which is a far more interesting machine IMHO.

Than an Amiga? Come now, the Archimedes was pretty vanilla hardware for its day -- it was basically a glorified Apple II with an ARM chip in terms of capability. In comparison, the Amiga's hardware was a generation leap ahead, and its OS was far more modern.

Anything that gets AmigaOS in the public eye is a Good Thing, in my book. My main computer is an X1000 running AmigaOS 4.1 and - with a little help from AmiCygnix - does everything I need. The website isn't a new idea, but it's still cool.